International Distinctions

Member, Int. Adv. Committee, IS Kyushu 2001.

Keynote Speaker, ISLT, Saga 2000.

Vice President, International Association for Lowland Technology, 1998-2002.

Delivered the Inaugural Address and Chaired the Keynote Lecture Session at the Int. Symp. on Lowland Technology, Saga, Nov. 1998.

Chairman, Org. Committee, National Workshop on Reinforcement of Ground and Slopes, Kanpur, Aug. 1998.

Chairman Special Lecture Session, Int. Symp. on Earth Reinforcement, IS Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, Nov. 1996.

Co-Chairaman, Session on Roads, Railways and Ground Improvement, Int. Seminar on Environmental Geotechnology with Geosynthetics, New Delhi, India, Aug. 1996.

Chairman, Org. Committee, Symp. on Adv. in Geotech. Engrg., Kanpur, India, Aug. 1996.

Chairman, Session E 10 on Damage and Chemical Compatibility, 5th Int. Geosynthetics Conf., Singapore, Sept., 1995.

Panelist, Int. Symposium on Prefailure Deformation of Geomaterials, Sapporo, Japan, Sept., 1995.

Chairman, Session on Deep and Shallow Foundations, 10th ARC on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Beijing, China, Aug-Sept., 1995.

Member, Int. Advisory Group, IS Kyushu '96, Int. Symp. on Earth Reinforcement.

Member, Tech. Committee, XIII Int. Conf. on Soil Mech. and Foundation Engrg., 1994.

Member, Org. Committee, II Int. Conf. on Geotechnical Earthquake Engrg. and Soil Dynamics, St. Louis, 1994.

Panelist, Int. Symp. on Pre-failure Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Hokkaido '94) Sapporo, Sept., 1994.

Co-Chairman, Session No.10, 5th Int. Geotextiles Conf., Singapore, Sept., 1994.

Panelist, Session on Ground Impr. Methods, XIII Int. Conf. on Soil Mech. and Found. Engrg. New Delhi, Jan., 1994.

Chairman, Tech. Session 4, II. Asian-Pacific Conf. on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, Aug., 1993.

Chairman, Tech. Session 5, Int. Symp. on Prediction versus Performance in Geotechnical Engrg., Bangkok, Dec., 1992.

Chairman, Tech. Session on Slopes and Excavations, Int. Symp. on Earth Reinf. Practice, Fukuoka, Nov., 1992.

Co-chairman Org. Comm., Int. Symp. on Problems of Lowlands Development, Saga, Nov., 1992.

Co-chairman, Session 3, Int. Symp. on Theory and Practice of Earth Reinf., Fukuoka, Oct., 1988.